Name Changing Celebrities

Lulu's ain folk call her Lu.

Diane.

George Burns was born Nathan Burnbaum. His friends (and Gracie) called him Natie.

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What about people in general who change their names? There is a reason you don’t ever meet anybody with the last name Hitler.

Paul Baressi was the only gay porn star I know of who used his real name.

Albert Brooks was born Albert Einstein.

David Bowie was born David Jones.

Michael Keaton was born Michael Douglas.

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Ashton Kutcher’s friends and family call him Chris. I don’t know what Mila calls him.

My father hung out with Tony Curtis in NY when he was still Bernie Schwartz.....

Greg McKeon uses his real name in porn.

Stewart Granger was born James Stewart.

St-St-St-Stewart Granger.

Helen Lawson was born Helena Finkelstein.

Olivia de Havilland was born as Livia de Havilland. She added that extra O after the fall of the Roman empire.

I sign all my autographs as Cheryl B but I sign my contracts and legal papers as Rita C!

Stewart Granger's real name was James Stewart

R18, are you also R13?

[quote] Olivia de Havilland was born as Livia de Havilland. She added that extra O after the fall of the Roman empire.

Best OdH joke since she died.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was Lew Alcindor

M. was born Mary Streep.

In Tina Turner’s case, her mother and sister continued to call her Ann. Even Robbie Montgomery did.

Yoohoo!!!

Actually R5 the Hitler name died out quite intentionally and there are no direct descendents.

According to David Gardner, author of the Last of the Hitlers: "They didn't sign a pact, but what they did is, they talked amongst themselves, talked about the burden they’ve had in the background of their lives, and decided that none of them would marry, none of them would have children. And that's a pact they’ve kept to this day."

Patty Duke preferred to be called Anna.

Sigourney Weaver was named Susan by her parents. She read the name Sigourney in [italic]the Great Gatsby[/italic] and liked it.

John Wayne was Marion Morrison

Sissy Spacek was Mary Spacek

Piper Laurie was Rosetta Jacobs

Rock Hudson was Roy Scherer, Jr.

And most famously Marilyn Monroe was Norma Jeane Mortenson

[Quote] Piper Laurie was Rosetta Jacobs

I had no idea Piper Laurie was black.

No, most famously Cary Grant was Archie Leech.

Danny Thomas was born Amos Muzyad Yaqoob Kairouz.

Which is Lebanese for "eggs over easy".

Marion Morrison became John Wayne

Krekor Ohanion became Mike Connors

Leslie Townes Hope became Bob Hope

Pills McGee became Judy Garland

Ellen Burstyn = Edna Rae Gillooley

Coco Chanel = Muddy Mae Suggins

Winona Ryder was born Winona Laura Horowitz.

[quote]Sigourney Weaver was named Susan by her parents. She read the name Sigourney in the Great Gatsby and liked it.

Stockard Channing is also a Susan. Stockard was her birth surname; Channing was her first husband's surname.

Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine were named Henry Warren Beaty (one 't') and Shirley MacLean Beaty.

I was born Ivanka, but you can now call me "Your Excellency."

Jesus, 90% of you either can't read or are full-on retarded. The thread doesn't ask you to list the new names chosen by celebrities, which we already know, but asks if the celebrities are known to their friends and family by those names of by their old names. We KNOW Marion Morrison became John Wayne. Did anyone from his past still CALL him Marion?

Prince Harry was christened Henry.

Sandra Dee was born Alexandra Zuck.

Bill de Blasio was born Warren Wilhelm Jr.

I was born with the name Donald, but you can call me Satan

I remember how Carrie Snodgrass, Swoozie Kurts and Meryl Streep led the campaign of honest names against traditional Hollywood fakery.

Changing your nomial identity sounds duplicitous to me.

Marilyn eventually legally changed her name from Norma Jean Baker to Marilyn Monroe, so I'm guessing most of her friends called her Marilyn.

I'm pretty sure Judy Garland was not called Frances in her adult life, except by Liza in that one song.

Dale Evans said that her mother always called her by her birth name "Frances" all of her life - as did all of her relatives back in Texas.

Her mother did call Roy.....Roy though......she hadn't met him when he was Leonard.

Sting AKA Gordon Matthew Sumner.

Wasn't Stewart Granger's real name was James Stewart?

[quote]There is a reason you don’t ever meet anybody with the last name Hitler.

"Hitler" itself was an assumed name; Adolf's father was born Alois Schicklgruber. Midway through life, Alois changed his name legally to Hitler, the name he then passed on to his son.

[quote]There was a significant grain of truth in the popular myth: Adolf Hitler's father was born out of wedlock to a Maria Schicklgruber; her son (and Adolf's father) Alois bore the Schicklgruber name until the death of his purported father, Johann Hiedler.

I saw a documentary abt Shania Twain following her voice recovery journey and her sister did call her Eileen.

I have a niece who now goes by a short form of her name which she prefers but is not the one we called her for the first 18 yrs of her life. It's hard to make this change but I respect her and call her what she prefers.

[quote]I remember how Carrie Snodgrass, Swoozie Kurts and Meryl Streep led the campaign of honest names against traditional Hollywood fakery.

You cunt! You got my name wrong and Meryl's real name is Mary Louise.

Luke Perry's real first name is Coy

Kate McKinnon's real last name is Bethold.

Wasn't Stewart Granger's real name was James Stewart?

Susan Dallion = Siouxsie Sue

John Simon Ritchie = Sid Vicious

Gary Numan = Gary Webb

Barbra was born Barbara, but sold the 2nd a.

All of Lauren Bacall’s friends and family called her Betty.

(Brooklyn born Betty Persky never lost her FLAVAH.)

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[quote] Paul Baressi was the only gay porn star I know of who used his real name.

So did Adam Killian.

Megan Thee Stallion was born plain old Frances Gumm!

so what happens if people write checks in their stage name? And they have their real names on the bank accounts? wire transfers etc?

I meant write checks TO THEM

On "Feud," Bette Davis always addressed Joan Crawford as "Lucille" (her actual first name) and Joan's brother addressed her as "Billie" (the name she went by in childhood).

Nixon's evil top aides Haldeman and Ehrlichman didn't like Pat Nixon, and always referred to her behind her back by her real first name, Thelma, which she hated.

Melania is called Mrs. Trump by her staff, but behind her back they call her "that fucking cunt!"

What was Stewart Granger’s birth name?

Barbara Stanwyck's friends alternated between calling her "Missy" and "That Uptight Dyke."

It's weird to me when a celebrity has a childhood nickname that their family members and closest childhooid friends still call them by:

Whitney Houston: Nippy

Liev Schreiber: Huggy

Queen Elizabeth II: Lillibet

Ina Garten: Stinky

R60 So did Joe Romero. (Born Joseph Romero)

Vicki Lester was born Esther Blodgett

But now she’s Mrs Norman Maine, R71

If you have your name legally changed, you can write a check with it, but most celebrities don't write their own checks anyway. They have their own companies and the company writes the checks for things.

Fannie Flagg's real name is Patricia Neal.

Susan Hayward's real name was Edythe Marriner.

Lucille Ball's real name was Lucille Ball.

Vivian Vance was born Vivian Roberta Jones.

Olivia Colman's real name at birth was Sarah Caroline Olivia Colman, her married name is Sinclair. Her three children also go by Sinclair.

Cilla Black's real name was Priscilla Maria Veronica White. She insisted on being addressed by her married name of Mrs. Willis in her private life.

'Rihanna' is Robyn Rihanna Fenty's middle name. Her family and close friends call her Robyn. Even Chris Brown, in the interview after the beating incident, kept referring to her as 'Robyn'. She says if she's in a party and someone calls her 'Rihanna', she immediately thinks 'fan' and switches to celebrity mode.

Wasn't Stewart Granger's real name was James Stewart?

R80. I believe so. It's been mentioned on the thread a couple of times already.

I had to use a stage name because of that cunt Elizabeth Mitchell.

Cyd Charisse's birth name was Tula Finklea. I'm pretty sure she never used that after she became Cyd.

Fritz Sticklemeyer's real name was Adolph Hitler.

Diana Dors' real name was Diana Fluck

Eve Harrington was born Gertrude Slojinski.

What was Stewart Granger's real name?

Michael Keaton's real name is Michael Douglas

Joan Crawford was (of course) originally Lucille LeSeuer but, despite 'Feud', I've never heard of anyone calling her by her original name. There is extensive correspondence where even her ex-husband, Franchot Tone, addressed her as 'Joan'. OTOH, there is a letter from ex-husband Douglas Fairbanks Jr where he uses her childhood nickname, 'Billie'. I thought it was touching that she remained friendly with her ex-husbands, and was even entrusted to serve as Tone's executor.

Sandra Dee's real name was Alexandra Zuck

R90, Won't you please give a hearty hello to R42?

Zsa Zsa Gabor was born Sari Gabor.

And she was never Sari about anything for the rest of her life.

Eva, I miss your pussy.

Wasn't Stewart Granger's real name was James Stewart?

R95 = Obviously, not an English major.

R96, he's not even the real Stewart Granger Troll!

Lily Garland was really Mildred Plotka, and Vicki Lester was born Esther Blodgett.

Natalie Portman = Natalie Herschlag

I've only read this once in a Boze Hadleigh interview, but apparently Liberace's real name was Ben Dover. Probably just a vicious rumour.

The Pixies’ leader Charles Thompson has used the stage names Black Francis and Frank Black, but they aren’t names anyone calls him in real life — when other members of the band refer to him they call him Charles.

It’s not surprising that mononymic rock stars like Bono and Sting don’t use those names legally — their kids have their real surnames (Hewson and Sumner). But it seems like everyone who knows them still calls them Bono and Sting — those are nicknames that preceded their fame.

Elvis Costello’s kids use his real surname MacManus. But even though “Elvis Costello” is a stage name he made up rather than something friends called him, I think most people he met after he became famous do call him Elvis... don’t know about his family though.

Singer Billie Holiday's real name is Eleanora Fagan. She took her new first name from actress Billie Dove, who she liked, and Holiday from her father (she was given her mother's last name at birth).

David Tennant continued to use his birth name of David McDonald long after he was famous and even said once he’d never change his name because it would be disrespectful to his father.

When his daughter was born, his girlfriend (now wife) gave the child the surname Tennant and convinced him to change his name so it would be the same as the baby, changed her son by a previous relationship’s surname by deed poll to Tennant to help with his acting career, and when they got married she changed hers for the same reason. He later lied about it in an interview, making the bizarre and obviously false claim that SAG don’t allow actors to work under anything except their legal names.

How about some shape shifting celebrities and I'm not talking about the ones who had bariatric surgery!

So Jean Simmons was fucked by Steward Granger and James Stewart at the same time?

That's hot.

So Farley Granger and Jimmy Stewart were kissing cousins?

r88, see R8, and try to keep up.

Speaking of Farley Granger, wasn't Stewart Granger's real name was James Stewart?

Chris Farley was Jimmy Stewart's son?!?

No, but Hermione Grainger was James Stewart's daughter.

Ethel and Mary who?

R40, to answer your question about John Wayne, from boyhood he was called "Duke." He never went by "Marion."

So Hermione Grainger was Farley Granger's daughter?